--- title: When an actor forgets a line, making something up to keep the scene… — Show day: the exhibition, the concert and the bi… · tree and pragmatics description: When an actor forgets a line, making something up to keep the scene going is called improvising, and audiences usually forgive it. Who acts: actor, scene, making, audiences. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (actor, scene, making, audiences), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:arts:040-show-day-the-exhibition-the-concert-and-the-big-arts-quiz.lesson:13 # text = When an actor forgets a line, making something up to keep the scene going is called improvising, and audiences usually forgive it. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = arts # lesson = 040-show-day-the-exhibition-the-concert-and-the-big-arts-quiz.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R1-cc-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 When when SCONJ WRB _ 4 mark _ _ 2 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 actor actor NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 forgets forget VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 advcl _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 line line NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 making make VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 17 csubj:pass _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:nsubj 9 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 8 obj _ _ 10 up up ADP RP _ 8 compound:prt _ _ 11 to to PART TO _ 12 mark _ _ 12 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 advcl _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 scene scene NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 15 going go VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 12 xcomp _ _ 16 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux:pass _ _ 17 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 18 improvising improvise VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 17 xcomp _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=17:cc 21 audiences audience NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ _ 22 usually usually ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 forgive forgive VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 24 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 obj _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 17 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **forget** | present | a actor | a line | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **make up** | gerund | | something | | | | | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme something=Pivot | | 3 | **keep** | to-infinitive | | the scene | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **go** | gerund | the scene *not said here* | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **call** *speech: assert* | present · passive | making | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: clause=Topic | | 6 | **improvise** | gerund | making *not said here* | | | | | | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **forgive** | present | audiences | scene | | | | usually *property* | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:arts:040-show-day-the-exhibition-the-concert-and-the-big-arts-quiz.lesson:13`. **The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R1-cc-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence. 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